Podcast Episodes

Is China's demography China's destiny? A chat with former World Bank economist Bert Hofman

When the National Bureau of Statistics recently revealed that China's population had shrunk in 2022 for the first time in 60 years, conventional wisdom predicted that China was headed for catastrophe…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

A firsthand view of China's chaotic COVID re-opening, with Deborah Seligsohn

This week on Sinica, we welcome back Deborah Seligsohn, assistant professor of political science at Villanova University. Debbi spent October 2022 through early January 2023 in Shanghai and Beijing, …

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Talking China on TikTok with The China Project's Susan St. Denis

This week on Sinica, we're proud to introduce you to Susan St. Denis, who joined The China Project full-time recently after running the China Vibe Official TikTok channel for The China Project for th…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

The Sinica Network presents Strangers in China S3 Episode 1

This week on Sinica, we proudly present Episode 1 of the newest season of Strangers in China: Lockdown Part 1: A day in the life.

The 2022 Shanghai lockdown came to Clay’s neighborhood early and caugh…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

No Stranger to China: A conversation with Strangers in China creator Clay Baldo about Season 3

We proudly present Episode 1 of the new season of Strangers in China, part of the Sinica Network from The China Project. In this season, host Clay Baldo provides an intimate look at the lockdown in S…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Author Rebecca Kuang on her novel Babel, or on the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution

This week on Sinica, Kaiser chats with Rebecca Kuang (who writes under the name R.F. Kuang), the author of the best-selling historical fantasy novel Babel. Set in the 1830s in England, the novel’s Ch…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

The best solution for Taiwan is no solution: Jude Blanchette and Ryan Hass argue for kicking the can down the road

This week on Sinica, Jude Blanchette (Freeman Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies) and Ryan Hass (Armacost Chair at the John L. Thornton Center at the Brookings Institute) joi…

Published on 3 years ago

China's push for RMB internationalization

This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy welcome Diana Choyleva and Dinny McMahon, who recently published a report for the Wilson Center on China's efforts to internationalize the Renminbi, its currenc…

Published on 3 years ago

A familiar drumbeat: Michael Mazarr on the run-up to the Iraq invasion and parallels with China

This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Michael J. Mazarr, author of the book Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America's Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy, which examines the decision to invade …

Published on 3 years ago

Special episode: The COVID lockdown protests, with David Moser and Jeremiah Jenne

We've got a special bonus episode this week on the protests over the weekend of November 26th-27th in multiple cities around China. Joining Kaiser and Jeremy are old friends David Moser and Jeremiah …

Published on 3 years ago